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Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.[1][2] The adage was publicly formulated in January 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer.[3] Brandolini stated that he was inspired by reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, right before watching an Italian political talk show involving former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and journalist Marco Travaglio.[4] The persistent false claim that vaccines cause autism is sometimes cited as an example of Brandolini's law.[5] In 1998, British anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield wrote a fraudulent research paper which claimed to find a relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism.[5] The a

Brandolini's law - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Internet adage Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle ) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It contrasts the considerable effort of debunking misinformation with the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The challenge of refuting bullshit does not come just from its time-consuming nature, bu

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